Speech and Notes on Plastic Bags

NOTESEvery day over 10million new plastic bags are being created, that’s over 3.92 billion new plastic bags every year. You may think plastic bags are harmless, but the every time you accept plastic bags at a check out, you are damaging the environment we live in. For that one time you use that plastic bag, it can last from 500-100years. You may think you are helping the environment when you are buying biodegradable bags, but they take just as long to degrade. But there is a way to help the en As you may know plastic bags are a big problem in today’s society. They are damaging then environment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTurihxSTnI&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4StKI8HkzSo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci9PC8s-r2Q&feature=related http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2009/01/plastic-bags-animals-making-the-wild-safe-for-wildlife/ * Les then 1%of bags are recycled * It cost more to recycle a bag than to produce a new one * Costs $4000 t process and recycle 1ton of plastic bags which then can be sold on the commodities for $32 * Study 1975 showed ocean going vessels together dumped 8million pounds of plastic annually * World landfills weren’t overflowing with plastic was because most * Every day over 10million new plastic bags are being created, that’s over 3.92 billion new plastic bags every year. * Every square mile of water contains 46,000 bits of plastic litter * And kill at least 100,000 birds, whale, seals, dolphins and turtles every year. * 450 years in water

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Plasticbags suffocate and kill
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Paper
It messes up future with too much plasticbags and ends ups that we might have to leave earth.
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No need to ban, add a tax
Used as a marketing ploy
Freedom of choice
people forget their re-useable bags
Causes expense to consumers in a time of recession
causes loss of jobs
People can and do recycle plasticbags
the environmental war needs to be won elsewhere
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so what do we carry our shopping in?
what if u bought them and u livd far away and you frove to the shopping centre and you 4 got youor plasticbags
other packaging
products making
PLASTICBAGS DONT HARM THE ENVIRONMENT
NO,need to ban just reduce the use of plastic
Should plasticbags be banned?
Yes because...No because...
environmental damage
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...no to plasticbags!
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Yes i think grocery bags should be banned for animal reasoning
yes i belive that grocery bags should be bannned because they are dumped in a land fill for hundreds and or thousaond of years. Also animals could me hungry and eat the plastic and die and that is animal crulelty which I personaly am not that fond of. Also paper bag could make less polution and you can reuse them and they can hold more and not break i also belive that they dont break as easy. I also belive that colth bags are the best source of all because...

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The obvious disadvantage is the length of time it takes plastic to break down as well as the harmful chemicals that will be released.
You may find that in garbages 90% or more will be of plastics only. so its main disadvantage is its non bio degradable nature..and by some means if tried to burn it then it will create much envi pollution!!
Advantages
The durability, strength, low cost, water and chemicals resistance, welding properties, lesser energy and heavy chemicals requirements in manufacture, fewer atmosphere emissions and light weight are advantages of plasticbags. Many studies comparing plastic versus paper for shopping bags show that plasticbags have less net environmental effect than paper bags, requiring less energy to produce, transport and recycle; however these studies also note that recycling rates for plastic are significantly lower than for paper.[2] Plastic...